Download or read book A Child of the Jago Illustrated written by Arthur Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.A bestseller in its time, [1] it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, [2] a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel on Christmas Day 1896, felt that it was "poor stuf